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Sherlock Holmes

fictional character (consulting detective) created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

6 dated entries naming Sherlock Holmes, drawn from 6 separate years between 1854 CE and 1930 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1854January 6 – The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is perhaps born.source
  • 1887Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton's Christmas Annual.source
  • 1891June 25 – Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine (London) for the first time, in the issue dated July.source
  • 1892October 31 – The first collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories from The Strand Magazine, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is published in London.source
  • 1893November 26 – Arthur Conan Doyle's story "The Adventure of the Final Problem", published in the December dated issue of The Strand Magazine and serialized in Sunday newspapers worldwide, surprises the reading public by revealing that his popular character Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the Reichenbach Falls on May 4, 1891.source

20th century

  • 1930July 7 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British fiction writer (Sherlock Holmes) (b. 1859)source

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